Premier League champion and Champions League winner, 33, considering shock RETIREMENT after three months unemployed

JOEL MATIP is considering a daze status from football, according to reports.

The Liverpool hero, who helped the nine triumph the Premier League and Champions League, near Anfield successful the summer.

Ex-club Schalke and Hamburg had some been linked with a determination for the centre-back, portion Prem sides Bournemouth and Southampton had besides considered moves.

However, the defender has yet been without a nine since his Liverpool declaration expired.

And aft 3 months unemployed, helium is present said to beryllium considering a daze status from the beauteous game.

According to German outlet Ruhr Nachrichten, Matip has personally ruled retired a instrumentality to football.

Matip called it quits for the Cameroon nationalist squad backmost successful 2015 astatine the property of conscionable 24.

The 33-year-old played 258 times for Schalke and 201 times for Liverpool.

His exploits successful Germany saw him onshore the German Cup and German Super Cup.

But it was successful England wherever Matip managed to truly soma retired his trophy furniture nether Jurgen Klopp - whose own adjacent determination to Red Bull was precocious revealed aft helium near Liverpool.

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Matip - who formed a formidable concern with Virgil van Dijk - helped the Reds triumph their archetypal ever Premier League rubric successful 2020, portion besides landing the Champions League the twelvemonth before.

He besides helped them to triumph the Uefa Supercup, FA Cup, 2 League Cups and the Community Shield.

Paying tribute to Matip aft helium near Liverpool, Klopp said: "In each the years that I person been progressive successful football, I americium not definite I person travel crossed excessively galore players who are much loved than Joel Matip.

"I’m not adjacent definite it would beryllium imaginable to accidental thing atrocious astir him.

“A fantastic professional, a fantastic footballer and a fantastic quality being – we person been blessed to person him with america for arsenic agelong arsenic we person and present each we tin bash is privation him good arsenic helium heads disconnected successful a caller direction.

“Joel’s qualities arsenic a subordinate are determination for each to spot and arsenic a club, we person benefited from them since the archetypal infinitesimal that helium joined.

"I don’t deliberation helium has had excessively galore headlines implicit the years but helium has lone ever been a precise celebrated fig wrong our group.

“I person said earlier that if determination was 1 idiosyncratic who wouldn’t attraction if helium was underrated it would beryllium Joel, but the information is we could not person rated him much highly.

"Not lone has helium acceptable the standards for himself, helium has acceptable them for others and this is 1 of the main reasons wherefore his clip present has been truthful successful.”

Matip was named successful SunSport's stunning escaped cause XI worthy £78million connected transportation deadline day.